Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.

I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul.

God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.